Growing Up...

Our little baby Brooklee is growing up so fast! She seems to do new things every day! A few weeks ago, it seemed like in just a matter of days, she was waving bye, giving "five", shaking her head "no" (of course:o) and just doing so many things. She is such an active little baby. She always has to see what is going on, and she gets so frustrated watching her cousins and other kids playing because she wants to get in on all of the action! She is not crawling yet, but she gets around to wherever she wants to go. I think she is just trying to skip the crawling stage and go straight to walking. Everyone keeps telling me "she has to crawl first or else she'll be uncoordinated!" but she definitely has a mind of her own and is going to do what she wants to do! Anyway, here are some pictures from the last few weeks...

I love this picture! I set Brooklee on the floor in our bedroom while I went to the kitchen for just a few seconds. Sam was up on the bed and when I came in, I didn't see Brooklee. It freaked me out for a second, and then I saw her little head poke out from under the bed! I laughed so hard! It was so stinkin cute! I really was only gone for maybe 30 seconds and she had made her way under the bed!

So Brooklee's first two bottom teeth came in about a month ago. I really haven't gotten any good pictures of them. These are pretty much it and I made the mistake of using the sephia setting so you can't see them as well. But if you look closely, they are there!

You can see her two little teeth in this one as well!

Okay, this might seem really random, but I never did post about Father's Day! I am a horrible wife! Anyway, I didn't do too much for Sam, but I did make him breakfast in bed. Which actually says a lot because Sam is usually the breakfast maker, especially on Sundays! Anyway, I made a pretty good breakfast, if I do say so myself! I made banana pancakes, eggs, english muffins, and this beautiful fruit and yogurt parfait that I just put together at the last minute and I thought that it turned out really cute! :o)

And here is a picture of Sam and his breakfast in bed. A little embarrasing because, as you can see, I brought it to him on a cookie sheet! But who really even has those fancy shmancy trays anyway?! (actually, now that I think of it, we had one growing up:0) So the cookie sheet was all I could come up with! Anyway, Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband! He is the best daddy in the whole world and Brooklee is the luckiest baby that ever lived!!!! I love you Sammy!!!!!! :o)

Eventful Summer!

So we have had a pretty eventful summer so far.  The weekend school got out we went and stayed at the Point Hilton in Phoenix for Memorial weekend.  Sam's parents and his siblings and their families all went as well.  It was a lot of fun.  They have a water park there that is real fun.  Brooklee really enjoyed the lazy river!  She loved the water!  We also saw the Diamondbacks lose to the the Padres on Memorial Day, but it was pretty fun anyway.  We sat in a section that has all you can eat hot dogs, sodas, chips, and popcorn and let me tell you, that is definitely the way to go if you are going to a diamondbacks game!  Anyway, here are pictures of our little trip! Enjoy!

I love Brooklee's little bathing suit.  She is so white that we have to cover her up as much as possible.  Gotta love Old Navy!!!! :o)

This is the little floaty that we bought for Brooklee.  She would just sit back and relax in it!  But she also discovered that she liked the taste of pool water! Yuck!  She kept trying to drink it, so we had to prop her up so she would be farther away from it.  Notice the face she is making!  It is so dang funny!  She makes that face and then blows in and out through her nose!  I will have to post a video of her doing it...it is hilarious!

Brooklee loves to ride on Daddy's shoulders!  Daddy likes it until there is a loaded diaper!!!  :o)

Here are all the cousins that went that weekend

I promise you that this was all Sam's idea!  He thought it would be funny...he was right!

We really didn't get many pictures at the diamondback's game.  But here is Shawn and Gwen eating their cotton candy with Jo, Kasi and Arizona in the background!

I almost forgot!  We got Brooklee's ears pierced!  Okay, so I shouldn't say we because Sam wanted nothing to do with it, but I actually wanted to get them pierced a while back.  I was told before that her ear lobes were to small!   We got them done at wal-mart, which I wasn't too thrilled about at first.  But I called everyone in town and nobody really did infant ear-piercing except walmart, or else they were just too dang expensive.  So then I figured out that the ladies at walmart actually have a lot of experience because they really are one of the only places in town to get them done.  Plus, it only cost $11 including the earings!!!  You really can't beat that!  Anyway, here is a picture of Brooklee on my mom's lap just before the big event.  I think by the look on her face she knew it was coming!

Here is Brooklee after the piercing.  She cried a little bit but we gave her this toy and she stopped!  She has been fine ever since!  So one of my biggest reasons for getting her ears pierced was so people would know she is a girl.  They day after I got her ears pierced, we were at the water park and a guy came by and said "well look at this little guy!...oh wait, it's a girl!"  HELLO!  She is only wearing a pink swimming suit, a floppy white hat and has earings!  People are so dang clueless!  Oh well, what are you going to do!  I just smiled and went on my merry way! :o)